EMPLOYEES

Kurt K. Burnham, D.Phil., President and CEO

Kurt was born in Col­orado and moved to Ida­ho at the age of nine.  Kurt grew up in the out­doors and trav­eled exten­sive­ly around the world, vis­it­ing var­i­ous con­ser­va­tion and research projects through­out the third world with his father (for­mer pres­i­dent of The Pere­grine Fund, Dr. William Burn­ham).  Kurt first vis­it­ed Green­land in 1991 and received his Bachelor’s degree in Biol­o­gy from the Col­lege of Ida­ho in 1997.  Upon grad­u­at­ing Kurt began work­ing for The Pere­grine Fund man­ag­ing their Green­land Project, and in 2003 was appoint­ed as their Arc­tic Projects Direc­tor.  In the fall of 2006 Kurt cre­at­ed the High Arc­tic Insti­tute and in the spring of 2008 received his D.Phil. from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Oxford, with his the­sis research focus­ing on Pere­grine and Gyr­fal­con pop­u­la­tions in Green­land.  Kurt has con­duct­ed field research in Green­land every sum­mer since 1991, spend­ing near­ly three com­bined years of his life in Green­land.